little known Genera of Plants. 3^8 1 



Uacemuli in apice culmi vaginato 4-5, \~\ polL longi, graciles, patuli 

 scabriusculi. Spicula 3-4, alternre, cum caudis 7-8 lineas longae, ob- 

 longae, compressse, altero margine rectiusculo. Glumas cum pedicello, 

 \-\\ lineas longo, basi confluentes; inferior major, in caudam rigidam. 

 rectam, ipsa glumali parte longiorem, extenuata, alte et curvatim cari- 

 riaita, 5.nervis, nervis in carinas elevatis et setoso-hirsutis ; superior glu- 

 ma 3 lineas longa, lanceolata, acuta, 3- nervis, 3-carinata, carinis simili 

 modo hirsutis. • Valvula florem a latere, glumae superiori ojiposito, cin. 

 gens, altitudine fere ovarii, tenerrima, apice truncata et emarginato- 

 angulata, enervis (?). Filamenta pistillum aequantia, capillaria ; antheras 

 pro filamentorum proceritate breves. Stigmata valida, valde plumosa, 

 ramulis iterum plumulosis, superiora versus confluentibus. Caryopsis 

 2 lin. longa, distincte pedicellata, fere teres et subcylindrica, mucrone a 

 styli basi residuo bidentato coronata, leviter substriata, fusca, latere latere 

 linea depressiuscula pallida inscripta.* 



(To be conlimied.) 



Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately 

 flowered in Gardens in the neighbourhood (f Edinburgh, 

 but chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden, By Dr Graham, 

 Professor of Botany in the University ,of Edinburgh. 



lOfA »Sep/. 1833. 

 Fritillaria minor. i^- /. r. 



F. minor ; caule inferne nudo, subunifloro ; foliis sparsis, lineavibus, ca- 

 naliculatis ; flore subtesselato, petalis exterioribus oblongis, iiiteriori- 

 bu8 latioribus obovatis. — Ledehour. 

 Fritillaria minor, Ledeb. Ic. PI. Fl. Ross. Alt. 2. 12. t. 130 — Ibid, Fl- 



Altaica, 2. 34. 

 Fritiilaria meleagroides, Patrin, in Schult. Syst. Veget. 7« 395. 

 DEScniPTioN — Bulb subrotund, white, about the size of a small hazel 

 nut, with many slender roots from its base. Stem (in my native 8j)eci- 

 mens from 7 inches to 1 foot high, in the cultivated specimen 1 foot 10 

 inches) erect, simple, single- flowered in my native specimens, and almost 

 always so in such, according to Ledebour, in the cultivated 3-flowered, 

 pruinoso-glaucous, brown and speckled towards its base, obscurely three- 

 sided, naked for a considerable way above the base. Leaves scattered, 

 smaller upwards (in native specimens 4-5, the lower 3 inches long, in 

 the cultivated 7, the lower 6 inches long), lanceolato-iinear, channelled 

 along the upper surface, blunt, suberect, pruinoso-glaucous, half stem- 

 clasping. Flowers (13 lines long, 10^ lines broad) generally solitary in 

 the wild plant, 1-3 in the cultivated, springing from a common point at 

 the top of the stem bt'tweeA two subopposite leaves, and provided with 



• E Panicearum tribu novum genus prodiit, CoridocMoa ampellatum, cuju« typus est Pani- 

 cum cimicinum Relz. Proximum hoc est genui Anthenanthia P. de B., 8cd distlnctum spJcula 

 biflora et floscula fertili sctifiera. Neutro flosculo valvula superior deest, vel potius transitu In 

 lodiculas e.r tratisvento oppo.titas lancewlato-arumliiatas compHcatOMrarinatas. De quo alio tem- 

 iwre secrsim acturiis sum. 



